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Author: Alexander Browne (Publisher)
Item date: 1683
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 750
Item cost: 7,250
Institution: National Portrait Gallery
Town/City: London
43 portraits of Charles II and his court in a contemporary binding
Author: Christopher and Richard Towneley
Item date: 17th century
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 13,800
Institution: Bodleian Libraries
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
Working notebooks and written-up mathematical calculations in disciplines ranging from geometry to astronomy, from physics to trigonometry and from land-measuring to malting. This last in the form of an essay written by the young John Flamsteed, the future Astronomer Royal
Author: Sir Thomas Foxwell Buxton
Item date: 19th century
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 18,500
Institution: Rhodes House Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
Buxton was Wilberforces designated successor as leader of the parliamentary anti-slavery campaign. The MSS document the Buxton familys close involvement in the parliamentary campaign of 1833.
Author: Hore-Belisha
Item date: 1937 -40
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 1,500
Item cost: 18,000
Institution: Churchill College
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Diaries, photographs and letters concentrating on the period when Hore-Belisha was Minister of War 1937 - 1940 and particularly on the events surrounding the dismissal of Neville Chamberlain
Author: Harriet Martineau
Item date: 1858
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 143.75
Item cost: 143.75
Institution: Armitt Museum and Library, Ambleside
Town/City: Ambleside
County: Cumbria
Written from The Knoll, Ambleside to George Grote who was trying to help Martineau with money problems at The Westminster Review
Item date: 1699 - 1738
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 450
Item cost: 450
Institution: Royal Berkshire Archives (formerly Berks Record Office)
Town/City: Reading
County: Berkshire
Very detailed in the later years: no other such record is known for any other town of this period in the old county of Berkshire
Author: Christopher Goodman
Item date: 1558
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: 200
Institution: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Town/City: Chester
County: Cheshire
The author was born and died in Chester. On the accession of Queen Mary he joined the exiles in Strasburg. This work argues in favour of Wyatts rebellion and was secretly circulated in England
Author: JE Jackson
Item date: 1879
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 625
Item cost: 2,500
Institution: Wiltshire Museum
Town/City: Devizes
County: Wiltshire
Interleaved with MS notes, paper cuttings, early photographs, engravings pen and pencil drawings, 5 large coats of arms and 24 watercolours, some of them by William Wheatley
Author: William, Mary and Dorothy Wordsworth
Item date: 1809
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 2,115
Institution: Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage
Town/City: Grasmere
County: Cumbria
Replies to letters from de Quincey already at Dove Cottage. The letters discuss a variety of subjects, including the printing of The Convention of Cintra, de Quinceys intended move to Grasmere, Coleridges The Friend, and family matters
Author: Thomas de Quincey
Item date: 1822
Date acquired: 1985
Grant Value: 475
Item cost: 475
Institution: Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage
Town/City: Grasmere
County: Cumbria
First edition, a fine copy in Taylor and Hesseys trade binding